The Great Gatsby: 1920's Background Presentations
PPT Due: (Filename: GROUP#Gatsby.ppt)
Presentation:
Create a five-minute presentation covering a background element of The Great Gatsby
Presentation:
Create a five-minute presentation covering a background element of The Great Gatsby
- Your presentation should have 8-10 slides.
- Everyone in your group must present.
- You must include a handout for students to do with your presentation.
- Include a brief assignment for students to do after your presentation
Student Presentations
Quiz Date: October 24th
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Group 1: F. Scott Fitzgerald & The Lost Generation
Group 2: The Roaring 20s & The Jazz Age/Culture in the 1920sResearch the popular culture of the 1920s - Jazz/Music, Dance, Cars, Movies, and Fashion
Group 3: Prohibition & Organized Crime
Describe the 1919 World Series Scandal
Group 4: Women in the 1920s/The Flapper
- Describe F.Scott Fitzgerald's Life
- What were important influences on his life?
- What does the term, The Lost Generation, refer to?
- http://www.biography.com/people/f-scott-fitzgerald-9296261
- http://www.fscottfitzgeraldsociety.org/biography/
- http://people.howstuffworks.com/culture-traditions/generation-gaps/lost-generation.htm
- http://www.pbs.org/kteh/amstorytellers/bios.html
Group 2: The Roaring 20s & The Jazz Age/Culture in the 1920sResearch the popular culture of the 1920s - Jazz/Music, Dance, Cars, Movies, and Fashion
- http://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties
- http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade20.html
- https://www.boundless.com/u-s-history/from-the-new-era-to-the-great-depression-1920-1933/the-culture-of-change/the-culture-of-the-roaring-twenties/
- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/08/1920s-hairstyles-photos_n_3720290.html
Group 3: Prohibition & Organized Crime
- What was Prohibition?
- How did Prohibition influence the 1920s?
- How did Prohibition lead to the rise of Organized Crime?
- http://www.vintageperiods.com/prohibition.php
- http://www.thefinertimes.com/20th-Century-Crime-Articles/prohibition-in-the-1920s.html
- http://www.thefinertimes.com/20th-Century-Crime/organised-crime-in-the-1920s.html
- http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition/unintended-consequences/
Describe the 1919 World Series Scandal
Group 4: Women in the 1920s/The Flapper
- What was life like for women in the 1920s?
- In what way was the world changing for women?
- Who were the Flappers?
- http://history1900s.about.com/od/1920s/a/flappers.htm
- http://ncpedia.org/history/20th-Century/1920s-women
- http://capone.mtsu.edu/kmiddlet/history/women/time/wh-20s.html
- http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/working-voting-women-1920s/